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I had a girl friend once who coined one of the most wonderfully useful words. She wanted to say that nowadays she always does something, but in the past, that was not necessarily the case, and sometimes she did it much less habitually if at all. The distinction was being made between what she does now, and what she used to do. She very logically assigned "used to" the value of an auxiliary, like 'should' or 'might', and formed the appropriate negating contraction, and said "I usen't always to do that". Pronounced "YOO-sint". Usen't has become one of my favorite words.
My family in Mississippi uses something similar-"used to could"- as in "You used to could get a pepsi for a dime".
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